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| - I just came back from dinner at Circo. After reading all the rave reviews I was very excited to try this place. I love all the fresh red and yellow rose bouquets that they had at each table, very classy. I also had a decent view of the fountains, though my party was sitting about 4 tables back from the window. I liked the circus theme, it was done very creatively. The ambience is nice, but the food taste wise fell short especially for the price. The raspberry fizz martini was delicious though!
I decided to try the chefs tasting menu (cost $88). I chose the caprese salad, duck ravioli, scallops, lamb and I picked the strawberry tart for dessert.
The food arrived within good time, though I thought it took the server a little too long to greet us and take our order at the beginning.
The caprese salad was just ok. It is served with a special kind of very smal leaf basil. There was only a little sprig of it, so there was essentially no basil flavor. Duck ravioli was nice, I liked the mushrooms it was paired with.
Only one scallop is served with the tasting menu but it is a large one. The presentation was very nice on this. I thought the scallop was cooked very well, and was one of my favorite dishes here, though I have had scallops at other places I liked better.
I didn't really care much for the lamb (you pay an extra $9 for this). It is heavily encrusted in herbs, but surprisingly it didn't taste the strongly of herbs. The meat seemed fairly chewy, I had a hard time cutting it with my knife, and I had ordered it medium rare and it was really red.
The strawberry tart was ok. the arrangement of the strawberries on top of the tart was pretty. The filling was a mix of strawberries and something else? It was very mushy and didn't have much flavor. The was also a mini strawberry smoothie served along side. There were some pop rocks in it, so that was an interesting surprise. The strawberry sauce in the smoothie was a bit intense, tasted like fake strawberry syrup, it was too sweet. I think a smoothie made with real strawberries would have been better.
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